Choctaw

The Choctaw are a Native American people native to Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana in the American South. Most Choctaw supported the United States during the American Revolutionary War, and the Choctaw never went to war with the USA; they were some of the first tribes to be moved west of the Mississippi River under the Indian Removal Act, and they were given some of the most favorable lands in the Indian Territory, while those in Mississippi were given US citizenship in 1831. The Choctaw supported the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, and they would be some of the US Army's first codetalkers during World War I. In 2005, there were 160,000 Choctaw in the USA.